unsettled - Story 159553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But it's just a hamster," Maya protested, her voice rising. Leo’s face remained impassive, his arms crossed. The prospect of little claws on the laminate flooring made her skin crawl.

She fiddled with a loose thread on the sofa cushion. The apartment, usually a vibrant space filled with their mismatched furniture and shared laughter, suddenly seemed constricting. This small change felt monumental.

She watched him, his usual easygoing demeanor replaced with a determined set to his jaw. He was usually so agreeable. She found herself clutching her chest. How could something so small create such a feeling of unease?

Emotion: unsettled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unsettled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 unsettled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unsettled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unsettled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.382
`😞`	0.309
`ness`	0.301
`😣`	0.256
`😔`	0.248

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.721
`la`	-0.597
`a`	-0.365
`"`	-0.299
`l`	-0.274